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Welcome to the FEC Wiki

Campaign finance for everyone

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) releases information to the public about money that’s raised and spent in federal elections — that’s elections for US president, Senate, and House of Representatives.

Are you interested in seeing how much money a candidate raised? Or spent? How much debt they took on? Who contributed to their campaign? The FEC is the authoritative source for that information.

betaFEC is a collaboration between 18F and the FEC. It aims to make campaign finance information more accessible (and understandable) to all users.

FEC repositories

We welcome you to explore, make suggestions, and contribute to our code.

All repositories

  • FEC: a general discussion forum. We compile feedback from FEC’s feedback widget here, and this is the best place to submit general feedback.
  • openFEC: FEC’s API.
  • fec-cms: the web app and content management system (CMS) for FEC.
  • fec-eregs: the eRegulations viewer for betaFEC.
  • fec-proxy: this is a lightweight app that coordinates the paths between the web app, eRegs viewer, and CMS.
  • fec-shipper: loading data into the API.
  • fec-infrastructure: terraform configurations for the campaign finance database

Get involved

We’re thrilled you want to get involved!

  • Read our contributing guidelines. Then, file an issue or submit a pull request.
  • Send us an email.
  • If you’re a developer, follow the installation instructions in the README.md page of each repository to run the apps on your computer.
  • Check out our StoriesonBoard FEC story map to get a sense of the user needs we'll be addressing in the future.
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